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From: Steve Long [mailto:longsteven@...]

> 2) If the ISS is your only customer, I can't see how
> providing them with space-based breathables will be
> less costly than mailing them up the gravity well;

We can probably all agree that use of space resources for volatiles
re-supply only even starts to make sense at the space hotel stage.

Ditto CELSS. I remember reading where someone was citing a study
suggesting that closed systems only start to make gains over re-supply
if the facility in question needs to be run longer than 7 years (or
something like that). They then pointed out that most hotels are built
with an assumption of use in excess of 7 years. So space hotels might
pioneer in both of these areas which are of interest to us.

Regards,

Mike Combs